Greek Quote by Maria Sakkari

I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a…

— Sara Coleridge

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

— Anne Rice

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

— Augusten Burroughs

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

— Gilbert Murray

“If you don’t speak Greek, how do you know if it’s all Greek to you?”

— Jarod Kintz

I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole…

— Alice Oswald

When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots.…

— Madeline Miller

“If you ask me if I know how to speak Latin, I’ll say, “No, it’s all Greek to me.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Greek 201 is always easier than Greek 101, because at first it’s all Greek to you, and later the material is still all new,…

— Jarod Kintz

For my part, it was Greek to me.

— William Shakespeare

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to…

— Heinrich Schliemann

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

— Edward Gibbon